Film+Series+Fall+2013

Free. All welcome.
 * RPI Sustainability Film Series **

Bldg 17 on this [|map]. Parking along 15th Street.
 * Darrin Communications Center 308 **

// [|Gasland 2] // is the sequel to director Josh Fox’s 2010, Oscar-nominated and highly controversial film //Gasland,// about the health, environmental and political costs of natural gas extraction through slickwater fracking. //Gasland// provoked a response from the Independent Petroleum Asociation of Amercia, which produced the film //[|Truthland],// promising to show “the real gasland.” Fox’s second film continues the debate, arguing that the stakes have continued to rise as fracking expands globally, despite increasing evidence that the shale gas industry is “contaminating our democracy” as well as our water, air and bodies. Fox discusses //Gasland2// [|with John Stewart]. [|Steve Colbert] has also discussed the health and political costs of fracking. There is a fragile, five-year old moratorium on fracking in New York State; meanwhile, the state’s highest court has agreed to hear [|appeals that challenge municipal bans on fracking.]
 * Sunday, Sept 8, 4-6pm **

** Sunday, October 6, 4-6pm (DCC 308) ** // [|Pandora's Promise] // opens with Fukushima, then ask viewers to rethink nuclear power – in positive terms. Many environmentalists are reported to hate it; this [|review] says they should see it. A [|critical review by a nuclear submariner] garners a response from renowned climate scientist and nuclear advocate Jim Hansen. The film was an official selection of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

// [|Arid Lands] // tells the story of the region around the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where plutonium was produced for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki at the end of World War II. Today, the area is challenged by the largest environmental cleanup in history. The film shows how very different kinds of people – radiation scientists, ecologists, sports fishermen, housing developers, tattoo artists – understand the Hanford landscape, and how it has impacted their lives. //Arid Lands// has been screened at 24 film festivals, and has won eleven awards.
 * Sunday, November 3, 4-6pm (DCC 308) **

Following the film, the audience will have the opportunity to interact (via Skype) with Hanford whisteblower [|Walter Tamosaitis.]

Our screening is co-sponsored by [|Hanford Challenge], a prominent non-profit organization formed in 2007 that works toward effective site clean-up through an [|innovative, collaborative approach] that stimulates "conversation rather than confrontation." Hanford Challenge is a spin-off from the [|Government Accountability Project] (GAP), a non-profit that advocate on behalf of whistleblowers.